AIM Comparing the effectivity of prilocaine and prilocaine alkalinized with 8.4% NaHCO3 in terms of sensory and motor block onset and termination durations in RIVA technique considering patients' satisfaction and tolerance with application of tourniquet undergoing hand-wrist surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS 64 patients were randomised into two groups. First group (Group P) was administered pril...

A 32-year-old parturient requested epidural analgesia for labor. A lumbar epidural block was performed at the L1-2 interspace. Thirty minutes after the loading dose of the local anesthetic mixture, she suffered numbness in both arms and high sensory block up to the C6 dermatome without significant motor blockade. The retained epidural catheter was later confirmed radiologically to be in the sub...

BACKGROUND The benefits of regional anesthetic techniques are well established. Use of additives to local anesthetics can prolong these benefits. The aim of this study was to find out the effect of adding dexmedetomidine to bupivacaine for supraclavicular block. METHODS In this randomized, double-blind study, 70 ASA I & II patients of either sex undergoing elective surgeries on the upper limb...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate the sedative effect of dexmedetomidine (DEX) added to ropivacaine for supraclavicular brachial plexus block (BPB) using the bispectral index (BIS). METHODS Sixty patients (American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status 1 or 2, aged 20-65 years) undergoing wrist and hand surgery under supraclavicular BPB were randomly allocated to two gro...

conclusions open gastrostomy was successfully performed under subcostal tap block with small dose fentanyl supplementation. the subcostal tap block is considered a useful anesthetic choice in surgery for high risk patients. introduction many papers have reported that tap block provides effective postoperative analgesia, but the sole use of tap block for surgical anesthesia has been rarely repor...

Under weak and reasonable assumptions, mainly that data are exchangeable under the null hypothesis, permutation tests can provide exact control of false positives and allow the use of various non-standard statistics. There are, however, various common examples in which global exchangeability can be violated, including paired tests, tests that involve repeated measurements, tests in which subjec...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the use of 3 different doses of ropivacaine on the quality of anesthesia and hemodynamics in epidural anesthesia for transurethral surgery. METHODS The current study was conducted in the Department of Anesthesiology, Medical Faculty of Erciyes University, Turkey, between May 2004 and June 2006. The study recruited 81 males of ASA I- II group, ages 60-80 years, undergo...

Backgrounds and objectives: This an attempt to compare the effects of 15ml levobupivacaine 0.75%, 20 ml 0.375% 30ml 0.25% with fixed dosage (75mg) on block characteristics in upper limb surgeries using ultrasound guided supraclavicular block. Materials methods: Titled “Comparative study three different volumes concentrations Levobupivacaine block” performed Department Anaesthesiology, Chettinad...

BACKGROUND The supplementation of local anaesthetics with adjuvants to improve the efficacy of subarachnoid block has been recognised since long. The most preferred drug has been opioids, but newer drugs like dexmedetomidine has also been introduced and investigated as an effective adjuvant. AIM This study was conducted to evaluate and compare the characteristics of subarachnoid blockade, hem...

The traditional axillary perineural (PN) approach for brachial plexus block is frequently used, but separate musculocutaneous nerve (MCN) required and increases procedure time patient discomfort. We hypothesized that a using the proximal perivascular (PPV) method at MCN branching from lateral cord would obviate need an while ensuring quality similar to of PN method. For group (n = 25), needle w...